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Opera Mini to bring full Flash to mobile browsing
You might recall that while discussing the iPhone's mobile version of Safari, we recently lamented the lack of full Flash support on mobile browsers. After all, what's the point of browsing the Internet if you can't watch that YouTube video of the Star Wars kid? Well fear not: those lovable Norwegians behind the popular Opera browser are bringing YouTube to the wireless handset. The forthcoming update of Opera Mini will be the first mobile browser to incorporate the full version of Flash into its code, so that you finally can browse animation-intensive websites and watch videos on the go. What's more, the new version of Opera Mini features small screen rendering, horizontal scrolling and an overview mode for zooming in and out of web pages: it's basically the iPhone browser sans multitouch. What's more, Opera claims that Opera Mini's backend compression technology will allow a wide variety of handsets to run the browser, not just smartphones. Opera Mini will be available as a public beta on the 19th but don't get too excited if you're a Verizon Wireless customer, as the browser is blocked on the Verizon network.
For more on Opera Mini:
- see this ZDnet article
- and sign up for the public beta at Opera's website
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By Anonymous | Posted 10:12am | November 18, 2008
Grrr, where is flash. Iam posting through opera mini btw
By Anonymous | Posted 5:07pm | December 3, 2008
Skyfire already solved this problem so unless Opera can deliver quickly, Opera Mini will lose market share on Winmo and Symbian OS. RIM may be next.
By Suresh | Posted 4:39am | December 7, 2008
Already nokia s60 v3 fp2 sets like nokia 5320 support full flash to play youtube videos on go
By Baylo | Posted 10:18am | March 23, 2009
no flash in opera mini im afraid my nokia symbian v3 os does however
By Hackmaniac | Posted 2:23am | May 6, 2009
April 2009, and still no flash. But i luv opera... Muaaaahhhhhh!!!
By Anonymous | Posted 12:50pm | May 18, 2009
..i'm using OM. 8s a gr8 m0bile br0wser.. but 'cant watch flash vids...
By Anonymous | Posted 12:28pm | June 2, 2009
It's June 2009!,and opera mini still doesn' t supp0rt full flash!!hehe..we're waiting!!
anyway i still like opera mini..
By Anonymous | Posted 3:51pm | July 23, 2009
July 23th and no flash
what a liar is this author or opera group!
By Anonymous | Posted 5:04pm | September 1, 2009
agosto and Setiembre y... adivinen que.. NO FLASH!!!
By Anonymous | Posted 2:00pm | September 23, 2009
Sept 23rd 2009 I have Opera mini 5 beta on my Nokia N73 . I am very impressed with the browser BUT NO FLASH !! A world beater marred by this ommision !!
By Anonymous | Posted 1:18am | October 2, 2009
I DEMAND THAT AN OPEN STANDARD BE CREATED TO REPLACE FLASH FOR VIDEO ON THE WEB. THEN ALL PHONES COULD PLAY BACK VIDEO USING ANY BROWSER!!!
By kissedxx | Posted 11:26am | October 12, 2009
october.. no flash. i need it to play face book applications farmville and mafia wars on my mobile... join everybody.
By jongkerds | Posted 1:25pm | October 12, 2009
That's correct "kissedxx", i really wan't flash to play them lol. :)
By darjanvs | Posted 7:50pm | October 24, 2009
still no flash...bolt however has limited flash support. jos nema jebenog flesa na operi....
By asheesh | Posted 10:50am | December 7, 2009
it's 7 dec n no flash support, i used opera mini 5 beta to post it. i need it badly lyf is hell without no flash
By Everest | Posted 8:45pm | December 21, 2009
22 December 2009
you scums!
Where is the bloody flash?
By Talib Abbas | Posted 3:20am | December 29, 2009
i am currently using opera mini 5 beta 2 on my E90. No flash support while my default built in browser support full flash and youtube.
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